Today we were at Redgate. When we got to the meet the temperature was around 37 which is great. The wind that was whipping across the field was not great. The best hope was to catch something on the leeward side of the hills to stay our of the wind.
We started out by looping around the field at the meet but didn't draw anything. We crossed the road and went into field over the barway just off the road. We went across the dam by the pond and headed up the hill. We had just crested the hill when the hounds got started. They were in the woods just below us. They sounded good but as soon as they got high on the hill the voices dropped off.
Once they got over the top and dropped out of the wind they got going again. This was going to be the theme of the entire run. It was an awesome run as the hound kept battling through the wind and staying on that fox. They ran north paralleling Millington Rd and eventually crossed the road near Carters Bridge. We followed them and ran to the clear cut where we crossed paths with them.
We then backtracked around and caught up with them in the woods in BunkHouse. The hounds then started back toward Millington and put the fox to ground.
It was an awesome run because it really showed off the hound work. They kept battling through the wind to re-acquire the sent and eventually won the battle. The run lasted for 50 minutes and the first flight covered 3 miles with a top speed of around 21.2 MPH.
For the day we covered 6.84 miles. The hounds ran a lot more than that.
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